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Almost at the instant of her fall the rude music of the skimmington ceased.— The Mayor of Casterbridge
Up to this time he knew nothing of the skimmington-ride.— The Mayor of Casterbridge
Attorney-general, that there was danger of a skimmington between the great wig and the coif, the former having given a flat lie to the latter.— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
This was barred, and while the landlady was unfastening it the conversation about the skimmington was continued in the sitting-room, and reached his ears.— The Mayor of Casterbridge
Such was the state of things when the current affairs of Casterbridge were interrupted by an event of such magnitude that its influence reached to the lowest social stratum there, stirring the depths of its society simultaneously with the preparations for the skimmington.— The Mayor of Casterbridge

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